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• I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

  George Sand

  Quality, Noble, Virtue

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• Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

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  Vanity, Vices, Slave

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• Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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  Life, Inspirational Life, Writing

  "Metella". Ch. 1. Book by George Sand, 1833.

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• ... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

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  Thinking, Misunderstood, Able

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

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  Chance, Discouragement

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.74

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• Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

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  Ice, Darkness, World

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.335, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

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  Young Love, Needs, Danger

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• Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

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  Hearing, Prudent, Insult

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• The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

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  Different, Aging, Old Woman

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• Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

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  Cells, Roaming, Genius

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.

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  Wise, Kings, Race

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• Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

  George Sand

  Heart, May, Know How

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

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• Lying, like license, has its degrees.

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  Lying, Degrees, License

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• I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

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  Passion, Writing, Tasks

  Letter to Jules Boucoiran, March 4, 1831.

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• The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

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  Prayer, World, Lovers

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• Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

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  Flower, Oblivion, Graves

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• One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

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  Reality, Years, Altered

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• Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

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  Cutting, Heaven, Patterns

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

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  Poetry, Noble, Delight

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.20

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• I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

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  Believe, I Believe, Mortal Sin

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• Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

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  Heaven, Earth, Refuge

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• Where love is absent there can be no woman.

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  Love, Women, Love Is

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• Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

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  Cat, Angel, Devil

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• God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

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  Heart, Law, Two

  George Sand, Jane Minot Sedgwick (1893). “Fadette (La Petite Fadette): Tr. from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick, with an Etching by E.Abot”, Boston, Little, Brown [c1893]

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• When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...

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  Kissing, Air, Lips

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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